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Folio from the Digestum
Leaf from the Digest
Folio from the Digestum
Author of text: Emperor Justinian I (483?–565)
German
Medieval (Gothic)
13th century
Place of Manufacture: Germany
Medium/Technique
Ink and pencil (modern?) on parchment
Dimensions
Overall (page dimensions): 41.5 x 27.5 cm (16 5/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession NumberRES.17.87
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts – Manuscripts
Description1 folio cut in half width-wise and now in two pieces. Text is taken from Justinian's Digest (or Digestum), a compilation of legal rules and statutes from the classical jurists, which formed part of the larger Code of Justinian.
Each piece has 2 columns of 31 text lines in Latin. Bounding lines in blind, doubled at inner and outer margins, tripled between columns, full-length to upper and lower edges, writing lines in blind or light plummet, prickings along outer margin for writing lines only.
Possible catchword on verso, lower right corner, "In conputidi esto" [?].
Written in an early Gothic script in black ink with red rubrics. Three-line initials throughout alternating blue stroked red or vice versa, in-text initials alternate red and blue, paragraph marks alternate red and blue.
At an early date, the leaf was cut in half width-wise, each half folded for use as a wrapper, with some thread still sewn through new "spine." Some early marginalia.
Each piece has 2 columns of 31 text lines in Latin. Bounding lines in blind, doubled at inner and outer margins, tripled between columns, full-length to upper and lower edges, writing lines in blind or light plummet, prickings along outer margin for writing lines only.
Possible catchword on verso, lower right corner, "In conputidi esto" [?].
Written in an early Gothic script in black ink with red rubrics. Three-line initials throughout alternating blue stroked red or vice versa, in-text initials alternate red and blue, paragraph marks alternate red and blue.
At an early date, the leaf was cut in half width-wise, each half folded for use as a wrapper, with some thread still sewn through new "spine." Some early marginalia.
InscriptionsInscribed in pencil on verso: "120".
ProvenanceBy 1917, Denman W. Ross (1853-1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, gift of Denman W. Ross. (Accession date: February 15, 1917)